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Tanaka Shinbei
One of the "Four Great Assassins" of the Bakumatsu Era, Satsuma Domain Retainer
## Life Born in 1832 in Kagoshima, Satsuma Province. Accounts describe him as the son of a boatman o...
Kirino Toshiaki (Nakamura Hanjirō)
One of the "Four Great Assassins" of the Bakumatsu Era, Imperial Army Major General
## Life Born in 1838 in Kagoshima, Satsuma Province, as the third son of Nakamura Yoemon (also known...